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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: English (was: Volatile declaration in C++)
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Date: 17 Oct 89 22:53:35 GMT
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In article <2441@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <4176@pegasus.ATT.COM>, psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>> And the multitudes ... did sayest, "Huh?"

>English again:  "sayest" is second-person singular present indicative.

Not only that, but it should be the auxiliary which is inflected:
"Thou didst say," for example.

Gary Samuelson